.Ir.vi: .'i. i;i(i;). 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



uiitor. They wiiitiTcd liiiely, and gave a 



_ii'at abundaiiec of cuttings. 1 pre- 



;.:ircd the saml bed in the usual way, and 



I ut in the cuttings. Tliey stayed up and 



loked fine for about two weeks, but just 



hunt tbe time they usually start to root 



Ijey completely wilted off, and proved a 



nital failure. The varieties were Oeto- 



'icr Frost, Polly Eose, Appleton, White 



iiaton aiul Yellow P^aton. 



i purchased some unrooted cuttings 

 j rom a neighbor, which were placed in 

 ihe same bed, trimmed and put in by the 

 -ame person, and they rooted finely. My 

 neighbor's stock was housed in a carn.'i- 

 lion house, in boxes on a window sill. He 

 iiad some stock which was wintered suc- 

 .•essfully outside, in the open, but which 

 Ailts off and dies in about two weeks 

 lifter placing in the sand. His varieties 

 are Baby and Jerome Jones. 



Of course, my stock plants were never 

 fumigated, but were washed in clean 

 water before placing in the sand. They 

 were very soft, meaty cuttings, some 

 as large as a lead pencil, but were free 

 from bug.s. I gave some of my cuttings 

 to two different growers, so that they 

 might try to root them, but they did not 

 have any better success than 1 "did. 



(i. 8. B. 



If all the facts are just as Ci. S. B. 

 says, it is hard to determine what is the 

 trouble, if the trouble had been due to 

 fungus ill the sand, the unrooted cut- 

 ting.s mentioned as having been bought 

 from a neighbor would also have dami)ed 

 iiff. My first thought was that the out- 

 door cuttings were hard, from not receiv- 

 ing sufficient water, but that was dis- 

 pelled by the conclusion of G. S. B. 's 

 note, where he says they were "soft, 

 meaty cuttings. ' ' 



There is no reason, so far as the plants 

 are concerned, for this failure. The fact 

 of their having been wintered in a frame 

 should be a help rather than a hindrance, 

 if, as I assume, the frame Avas kept cold, 

 for such comes much nearer to the nat- 

 ural treatment of the plants than does 

 keeping them growing in a i-arnation 

 house temperature. 



The only exjilanat ion T can give is tliat 

 the cuttings may have lieen grown in too 

 rich a soil, and conse(|uently were too 

 gross and sappy, and instead of callousing 

 and forming roots, .simply melted away. 

 ^Vhile the mum is a gross feeder, it 

 should not receive that feed during the 

 dark winter months. A night tempera- 

 ture of 40 degrees, and fresh loam for 

 the plants to grow in, should eiiniinate 

 O. S. B. 's difficulties another year, if he 

 gives the stock plants all the air ]possible 

 and keeps the glass free from snow or 

 other accumulations. 



Charles H. Totty. 



EARLY GOLDEN GLOW MUMS. 



The photograph here reproduced, show- 

 ing a group of potted Golden Glow chrys- 

 anthenuims, was taken at the establish- 

 ment of the C. C. Pollworth Co.. Milwau- 

 kee, May 28. The plants were from cut- 

 tings taken in December, and about 2(t(> 

 iif them were ready for Decoration <lay 

 trade. 



"It seems," says the firm, "that this 

 variety of mums can be brought into 

 bloom at almost any time, according to 

 the time the cutting.s are struck and the 

 way they are grown. Most of tlie plants 

 contained two or three large blossoms, 

 and we have smaller ones with buds and, 

 they found a ready sale. It wjis not in 

 tended or presunu>d, at the time thesej 



Chrysanthemum Golden Glow for Memorial Day. 



cuttings were struck, that they were to 

 be brought into tlower at this time of 

 the year, but the small i>lants happened 

 to be in a house of some belated lilies 

 which required extra forcing and a higher 

 temperature to get them in for Easter; 

 consequently these plants began to make 

 rapid growth and set with bud. They 

 were shifted into larger pots and brought 

 along, and the result is that they came 

 into flower much out of se.ason. 



"There were also a few plants of the 

 Dr. Enguehard which came in at the 

 same time, but the flowers on the Golden 

 tJlow were equal to the best flowers that 

 come in at their regular season in the 

 fall. This plainly sIioavs the earliness 

 of this varietv. ' ' 



CALIFORNIA LILY BULBS. 



Now a Commercial Proposition. 



The first Ea.ster lilies fiowered from 

 AniM^ican grown liulbs whi(di have been 

 nianTeted in the Chicago wliolesale cut 

 flower district were sold in ]May by K. *'. 

 Amling and attracted much attention 

 among those wiio knew their history. It 

 put the bulb growing industry in this 

 country on a commercial basis. 



i'oT several years the U. S. Department 

 of/ Agriculture has been at work on the 

 pjoblem of growing the bulbs of Lilium 

 larrisii in this country. aOd, while ex- 

 periments have proven more or less satis- 

 ft'actory, even the most successful ones 

 ^■were slow in developing into a commer- 

 cial proposition. California proved the 

 best field for lily Imlb growing and one 

 or two firms there took hold of the 

 ]iroje('t in the hope of making a profit. 

 So far as iccorded, the flowers soM on 



the Chicago market in .May were the first 

 to stand the test of the actual sale of 

 the bulbs to a tlori.st who grows for the 

 wholesale trade. 



These lily bulbs are supposed to have 

 been raised from bulbs grown originally 

 from seed. The plants varied consider- 

 ably in character. The earliest lilies were 

 big, hard tlow.ers on long, well clothed 

 stems, b\it in tlie tail end of tiie crops 

 the growth was weak, the foliage irreg- 

 ular, curled ;ind yellow, with the flowers 

 soft, thin and watery. The deterioration 

 was steady from the fine, perfect flowers 

 that were first cut; the strength was in 

 proportion to the time of blooming, or 

 vice versa. 



The lily bulbs in question were grown 

 by the Santa Ana Easter Eily Co.. Santa 

 -Ana. <al.. who receiv(>d ^Cr) for l.itno. half 

 .") to 7 and half 7 to !•. Price would be a 

 secondary consideration if e\iM-v bulb 

 flowered strongly. The bulbs were flow- 

 ered by the Albert F. .Vniling Co.. ;May 

 wood. 111. A. F. Amling, jiresident of 

 the company, gave the following account 

 of them: 



Mr. Amiing's Story. 



" .\bout thos(> California lily liulb<. I 

 wish to say that W(^ bougiit ."oil ."i to 7 "s 

 am! .")(Mi 7 to "s, which ari'ivcd Sipteiiili-'r 

 lis. lOOS. find were at once potted into 

 .T-inch pots and .set iti .a cool house; niylit 

 tenijierature '>() degrees. This ue main 

 taineil throughout their growth. They 

 were about all cut ^lay 24; they came in 

 too late for Easter .and too early fi'ir 

 Decoration day. We lost about half of 

 the bulbs, as th(\v were too weak an<l 

 sickly. The otiier half wei'e fairly good; 

 some nice hard flowers were cut from 

 these, about four to six flowers to the 

 stem. t . } ■ 



